ABSTRACT
The detection of peritoneal metastases is essential in the staging of many tumours as their presence is often of major prognostic significance (1). Detection of peritoneal metastases allows decisions to be made regarding the need for surgery, response to treatment to be monitored, and tumour recurrence to be identified. Although current imaging can depict peritoneal metastases as small as a few millimetres in size as well as very small volumes of ascites, the sensitivities of imaging modalities are variable and relatively low in detecting small deposits.
